FIAF 72O CoNGRESS BOLOGNA 22-28 JUNE 2016 SYMPOSIUM: NEW LIFE FOR CINEMA’S PAST JUNE 25-26 Palazzo Re Enzo Teatro Comunale Cineteca di Bologna 1 CONGRESS VENUES ACCESS CINEMA LUMIÈRE/RENZO RENZI LIBRARY Congress Pass Holders have access to all Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini Congress and Symposium sessions Tours & Visits (June 27, 28) are open to all PALAZZO RE ENZO participants by reservation only Piazza del Nettuno, 1 TEATRO COMUNALE CONGRESS/SYMPOSIUM PASS Largo Respighi, 1 FOR FIAF MEMBERS Free access up to 4 representatives PIAZZA MAGGIORE (€200 for each additional representative) UNDERGROUND EXHIBITION SPACE CONGRESS/SYMPOSIUM Piazza Re Enzo FOR FIAF ASSOCIATES Free access up to 2 representatives MERCATO DELLE ERBE (€200 for each additional representative) Via Ugo Bassi, 23-25 SYMPOSIUM PASS € 250 The FIAF Congress takes place in the historic REDUCED SYMPOSIUM PASS center of Bologna. All venues are easily € 120 Students, Friends of the Cineteca, accessible from the rest of the city via public Il Cinema Ritrovato pass-holders, transportation and within walking distance FIAF supporters from the festival venues. REDUCED FESTIVAL ACCREDITATION FOR For public transportation schedule and CONGRESS/SYMPOSIUM PASS HOLDERS information: www.tper.it € 45 (instead of € 85) On Saturdays and Sundays via Ugo Bassi, via Rizzoli and via Indipendenza are WHERE DO I PICK-UP MY FIAF pedestrian-only. CONGRESS/SYMPOSIUM PASS? Due to these vehicle restrictions, buses take JUNE 22 @ Festival Guest Office alternate routes displayed at all bus stops. 2.00 pm - 10.00 pm JUNE 23-26 @ Congress Secretariat: The two major Taxi companies are Cotabo: 9.00 am – 6.00 pm + 39 051 372 727 and Cat Radio Taxi + 39 051 45 90. Taxis cannot be hailed from the WHERE DO I PICK-UP MY REDUCED street in Italy. The nearest taxi rank to the FESTIVAL PASS? Congress venue is located in Piazza Roosevelt, JUNE 22 @ Festival Guest Office two streets away from Piazza Maggiore in a 2.00 pm – 10.00 pm westerly direction. JUNE 23 – JULY 2 @ Festival Guest Office 9.00 am – 6.30 pm CONTACTS CONGRESS SECRETARIAT: www. fiaf2016.ilcinemaritrovato.it PALAZZO RE ENZO, Piazza del Nettuno, 1 [email protected] + 39 051 219 4826 FESTIVAL GUEST OFFICE: + 39 348 140 7864 CINETECA DI BOLOGNA / RENZO RENZI LIBRARY, Piazzetta Pasolini 3b CONTENTS WELCOME 4 CONGRESS SCHEDULE 6 SYMPOSIUM: NEW LIFE FOR CINEMA’S PAST 8 GUIDED TOURS & VISITS 11 2016 FIAF SECOND CENTURY FORUM 13 CLOSED MEETINGS 13 FIAF AFFILIATES 14 FIAF SUPPORTERS 20 FIAF CONGRESS EXHIBITORS 21 WELCOME GIAN LUCA FARINELLI Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Director Dear Friends and Colleagues, Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and FIAF are pleased to welcome you in Bologna for the 72nd FIAF Congress, which will take place in Bologna from June 22 to 28, 2016. Cineteca is deeply indebted to FIAF and the generosity of international film archives. The history of our institution changed when we joined the federation in 1989. Bologna hosted the FIAF Congress in 1994 as well as the most recent editions of the FIAF Resto- ration Summer School. Twenty-two years later, it is our pleasure to share our achievements and future challenges with the FIAF community: new archive spaces, our restoration laboratory L’Im- magine Ritrovata and especially the new Modernissimo cinema, a restored historic theater that first opened its doors in 1915. As for our most recent conservation and restoration efforts, our long experience with Charlie Chap- lin inspired us, in 2015, to embark in a new challenging project to restore the work of Buster Keaton. This year, those who will stay through Il Cinema Ritrovato, will be able to enjoy both: just like in 1994, the Congress will partly overlap with Il Cinema Ritrovato (from June 25 to July 2), the festival of film archives. Not only is Il Cinema Ritrovato organized by a cinematheque but its very program depends on the involvement of film archives from around the world. We felt that holding the two events in close proximity would make it easier from delegates from all over the work to join us while also reducing the cost for individual institutions. We firmly believe that combining the technical and the theoretical approaches of our work is the key to better understand what we do: watching classics, gems from all time periods and all continents as well as masterpieces by great filmmakers cannot but reinforce our vision and mission. Restoration is the theme of the annual Symposium: the FIAF Congress and Il Cinema Ritrovato fes- tival offer the perfect framework for sharing new case studies and exploring technical and meth- odological issues with international experts. Today, the extraordinary achievements of the film ar- chival community over time is evidenced by the results achieved by home-video companies who release restored films. The very fact that million of images and films are available to viewers on their phones, tablets and computers is a remarkable victory for film archives, FIAF and their hard work. In this crucial time of transition, the FIAF Congress in Bologna is a compelling opportunity to inves- tigate the resurgence of classic cinema. The first day of the Symposium will focus on restoration at large – what is being restored today, new technologies, documentation and more – and on film versus digital from different perspectives: from fear of the disappearance of a physical medium (recent survey demonstrating that archives are using film more than ever) to concern for the loss of film culture. The second day will investigate a new phenomenon: theaters run by film archives are not the only ones screening old films. Pathé’s new multiplex Les Fauvettes in Paris shows only classic movies. Newly restored historic cinemas too have a new lease of life: La Ciotat’s Eden, the historic movie theaters of Los Angeles, the recently re- opened cinema of the Austrian Filmarchiv, the Modernissimo in Bologna and other Italian theaters like the Odeon in Florence. All seem to follow the example set by the Filmoteca Española’s Cine Dorè, a pioneering example of movie theater restoration. An overview of the challenges, strategies and future projects across five continents will inform our final discussion. We could not think of a better finale four our Symposium than hosting Grover Crisp and Michael Friend’s annual THE REEL THING in Bologna, this year. The Reel Thing provides a unique forum for those interested in working in the technical areas of restoration as well as in the production, access, preservation and management of moving image media. The FIAF Award to the Dardenne Brothers (in their presence) and Cinémathèque de Belgique’s res- toration of their film La promesse (1996). 4 During the last two days of the Congress, participants will be able to choose among four options: following Il Cinema Ritrovato and watching films around the clock; taking a tour of Cineteca di Bo- logna and L’Immagine Ritrovata; taking a guided tour of Bologna or visiting the National Museum of Cinema in Turin. Every day will end with an open-air screening in Piazza Maggiore: a magical setting under the stars sharing with other thousands people the pure pleasure of watching cinematic masterpieces. Finally, we are very pleased to inaugurate a new underground space (just under Piazza Maggiore), with a spectacular exhibit – curated together with the Institut Lumière in Lyon – dedicated to the Lumière Brothers to discover their genius and modernity. ERIC LE ROY FIAF, President Dear Colleagues, It is an honor for me to meet you here again in Bologna for the 72nd Congress of our Federation, over twenty years after the Congress of 1994. At that time, the selected theme for the Symposium was: “A Philosophy of Audiovisual Archiving”. Since its foundation, and later since it entered FIAF in 1989, the Cineteca di Bologna has greatly developed to become one of the world’s leading institutions in the field of film preservation. Cineteca di Bologna was created fifty years ago thanks to the farsightedness of Renato Zangheri, who served first as Cultural Councilor and then as Mayor of Bologna. Zangheri firmly believed that a modern city should not only support the traditional institutions but also needed a Modern Art Gallery and a Film Archive. After the Second World War, Bologna – the oldest university of the western world – became a city where cinema was discussed and studied closely, thanks to renowned art critics like Roberto Longhi and Francesco Arcangeli, as well as prominent film critics like Renzo Renzi. In addition to the archives (a significant patrimony of films, photos, posters, books, documents, -nu merous prestigious collections, including Chaplin and Pasolini), the Cineteca today runs has a cine- ma with two theatres: the Lumière Cinema, with the Mastroianni and Scorsese theatres. In the late 1980’s, the Cineteca gave life to its own restoration laboratory. This has allowed Cineteca to enrich its collection of films, which, otherwise would be inaccessible, to deepen its research on the history of film and to restore, in collaboration with archives from all over the world, a dozen of films per year. This year the theme of the Symposium is thus naturally dedicated to restoration at large and we hope that the discussions will help us to define effective guidelines. During these months of preparation, the tireless and passionate Gian Luca Farinelli, together with Anna Fiaccarini and their team have been active to guarantee the success of this Congress. I would like to compliment them, along with those who have been working relentlessly, and thank them for both their professional and warm welcome. We will thus participate at this Congress following the usual schedule, with the Symposium, the Second Century Forum, the Commission Workshops and our annual General Assembly, with the addition, however, of a great wealth of screenings and film presentations of very different nature which reveal the vitality of our community.